Friday, 12 May 2017

Arrow Video releases, this August.

New releases coming from Arrow video this August.

Shock Treatment - on Blu-ray on 7 August.

Available on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world, it is with absolute pleasure that Arrow Video presents Shock Treatment – the criminally underrated sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Featuring a host of familiar Rocky faces including Richard O’Brien and Patricia Quinn, alongside the likes of Jessica Harper, Barry Humphries and Rik Mayall – not to mention a rocking, shocking score from Richard O’Brien and Richard Hartley – Shock Treatment is the follow-up that’s more than the equal of its predecessor.

Arguably horror film legend Lucio Fulci’s greatest achievement, this giallo masterpiece ticks all the boxes for aficionados of Italian red herring murder mysteries, with bodies piling up, festering small town corruption and shocking kills, as well as lead roles for giallo favourites Tomas Milian and Barbara Bouchet.

The Dual Format release boasts a new commentary and interviews, a superbly illustrated reversible sleeve, and a collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film with the first pressing.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations• Original mono Italian and English soundtracks (lossless on the Blu-ray Disc)• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack• New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films• The Blood of Innocents, a new video discussion with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film• Hell is Already in Us, a new video essay by critic Kat Ellinger • Interviews with co-writer/director Lucio Fulci, actor Florinda Bolkan, cinematographer Sergio D’Offizi, assistant editor Bruno Micheli and assistant makeup artist Maurizio Trani• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Timothy Pittides

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector’s booklet with new writing on the film by Barry Forshaw and Howard Hughes

This infamous, influential shocker, about a brutal killer running amok on a remote island, finally gets the pristine Dual Format treatment, with a stunning new 4K restoration.

The film, whose nightmares-seeping-into-reality theme predates a certain Wes Craven classic by several years, comes with a reversible sleeve featuring brand new artwork, and a collector’s booklet with the first pressing.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS• Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations• Original Uncompressed Mono Audio• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing• Brand new interviews with cast and crew• Original Theatrical Trailer• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn